Tours & Tickets

Commissions, Tours & Tickets

Initially spanning two years, the OUTLANDS programme includes six flagship tours (three per year), each showcasing new work commissioned by one of the ten partner organisations, across eight regions that comprise the network.

Design by Joe Gilmore

OUTLANDS #1MAY 2018

MATANA ROBERTS & KELLY JAYNE JONES

The internationally renowned US composer, saxophonist, mixed-media practitioner, and sonic voyager Matana Roberts (perhaps best known for her acclaimed Coin Coin project, ongoing and unfolding via Constellation Records) and British sound artist/improviser Kelly Jayne Jones, have announced a new live collaboration, the first in a series of special live shows programmed by OUTLANDS, a new national experimental music network.

Roberts and Jones are two artists from disparate backgrounds, finding affinity in practices charged by fiercely personal philosophies on sound. Both artists embrace improvisation, resist accepted narratives of sound, are community-minded and believe in democratic, shared, free-music making that erodes barriers. In other words, they perfectly embody what OUTLANDS is striving for – more info and dates below.

Roberts and Jones will weave their own approaches into live collaborative works informed by deeply expressive playing, tactile electro-acoustic interplay and a broader shared politics of resistance/defiance.

FUTURE TOURS

OUTLANDS #2JUNE/JULY 2018

Supersonic, Birmingham present a new collaborative performance between three improvisational luminaries. The performances will explore spontaneous composition, revealing the freedom and musical immediacy of all three artists’ individual unique techniques with the interplay between them creating a dynamic spectrum of experimental sound.

OUTLANDS #3 NOVEMBER 2018

RASTER NOTON VS DRIFT

Fuse, Bradford present a collaboration between DRIFT; a modular sensory installation project and artists from legendary German electronic label Raster Noton performing live inside the installation. An immersive sound-activated, audience-responsive, digital sound and light installation with audiences simultaneously creating live digital art on a large scale.

More details to be revealed over the coming months.

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OUTLANDS gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council England and Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.